Violin Virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff Plays Bach's Sonatas and Partitas

Violin virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff performs what is often regarded as the pinnacle of violin mastery, Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. Highly sought-after by the world's great orchestras, Tetzlaff is renowned as one of the instrument's most expert technicians and emotional interpreters. Having made two superb recordings of Bach's six-part cycle, Tetzlaff now brings the complete work to the San Francisco Symphony to conclude the season's focus on the master composer. Completed in 1720, Sonatas and Partitas solidified the violin's status as a solo instrument and served as an archetype for later generations of composers.

The seats in the 1st tier were very good, and the acoustics at Davies are great, especially in the above front seats. Tetzlaff was as extraordinary as I had heard he was. The only minus to the evening was that on the SF Symphony website the...continued

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This performance runs approx. two hours and 10 minutes, with no intermission.

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